Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is somewhere in California raising money this weekend from someone for the Connecticut Democratic Party. Just don’t ask where, from whom or for how much. Malloy is attending “multiple events” in the company of Jonathan Harris, the executive director of the state party, but their locale, the cost and who might […]
October 18, 2013
Posted inEducation
CT tries new approach to help the 25% of urban students who can’t read
It took third grade teacher Marcy Deschaine three minutes to determine that one of her students was struggling to read. And it took her another three minutes of hearing Corey Lipscomb read from a book about making pizza to determine that this student’s reading was where it should be. “You’re in the green,” Deschaine, who […]
Posted inHealth
Obamacare report card: Access Health enrollment and the view from other states
Enrollment is underway in the state’s health insurance exchange, one of the major pieces of the federal health reform law, and early numbers offer a chance to take stock of how things are going.